Business

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 68.93 points Wednesday as it fell for the third consecutive day....Read More

Job openings in the United States by the end of July had increased to nearly 11 million — and outnumbered the number of jobless Americans by about 2 million, the Labor Department said Wednesday....Read More

Australia’s highest court issued a landmark ruling Wednesday that says several Australian news outlets are responsible for users’ comments posted to their Facebook pages....Read More

Mortgage demand in the United States has fallen to its lowest level in two months, experts say largely because there’s no incentive to borrow or refinance....Read More

Hyundai plans to develop hydrogen fuel versions of all its commercial vehicles by 2028, the automaker said Tuesday at its Hydrogen Wave conference....Read More

A new analytics report published on Tuesday said social video platform TikTok has surpassed YouTube in users’ average time spent — at least among those with Android phones in the United States....Read More

El Salvador on Tuesday allowed for the legal circulation of bitcoin, becoming the first country to adopt the cryptocurrency as legal tender....Read More

A pandemic-related shortage of a key rocket propellant, liquid oxygen, could force rocket launches to be postponed in coming months, possibly delaying important scientific and national defense missions....Read More

Tech giant and iPhone maker Apple announced on Friday that it’s delaying technology that will scan users’ smartphones to search for images of child sexual abuse, following backlash from privacy advocates....Read More

Texas-based Firefly Aerospace’s first rocket launch attempt ended in an explosion minutes after liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Thursday night....Read More